Kari Dickson is a British translator who specializes in translating works of Norwegian literature into English. She grew up in Edinburgh but spent her summers in Norway with maternal grandparents who did not speak English. She graduated in Scandinavian Studies at UCL, and worked in the theatre for some time. She did literal translations of two Ibsen plays (The Lady from The Sea and Hedda Gabler), which drove her interest in literary translation, eventually leading to an MA degree in translation from the University of Surrey.